History Horrible / VideoGameGenerationsSeventhOnwards

* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution: 1%'', a late [=1960s=]-era biker gang adventure released in 2013, was [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/01/12/ride-to-hell-impressions originally designed to be a]] WideOpenSandbox, but the version that eventually made it to retail {{railroad|ing}}s you onto a linear path even during the long, drawn-out driving missions which don't even allow you to stop the bike and there's no animations for crashing into anything. The story is a confusing, disjointed ClicheStorm big on sleaze and devoid of charm or logic[[note]]one such mission involves stealing a gas tanker and crashing it into a nearby power plant, [[DesignatedHero murdering many innocent people along the way]], just to get past a simple electric fence[[/note]], and the characters are all obnoxious and one-dimensional, many of whom exist solely to facilitate contrived and [[FetishRetardant distasteful]] RescueSex in which [[RightThroughHisPants no clothes are shed]]. It's also filled with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading long loading screens]]; the voice acting and writing are [[Horrible/VoiceActing abysmal]]; the graphics and animation are dated, ugly as sin, and in several cases, ''incomplete and error-prone''; and the combat sequences are brainless brawls that rely heavily on ActionCommands, ArtificialStupidity and [[HitboxDissonance faulty hit detection]]: this is especially transparent in the driving segments, where none of the onscreen enemies actually attack you in any way and the ones that do are obviously spawned by the game for the purpose of the ActionCommands that follow. The game also lacks any sort of dedicated GameOver or "mission failed" screen and instead forces you into the pause menu with "mission failed" plastered in the corner of the screen and the option to unpause the game disabled. It came as little surprise to anyone that the publisher and developer [[NotScreenedForCritics refused to send out review copies of the game]], or [[StillbornFranchise release any of the planned spinoff games]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HTKWX15oo Angry Joe]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKucJJeZMwc ProJared]], and [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7785-Ride-to-Hell-Retribution Yahtzee]] were more than happy to mock it, [=GameSpot=] gave ''Ride to Hell'' a score of [[http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/ride-to-hell-retribution-review/1900-6411189/ 1 (out of 10)]] (only the second such rating in the site's history after ''Big Rigs'') and it was eventually withdrawn from sale altogether. WebVideo/MediaHunter reviewed it for his [[https://youtu.be/hT-qSjBiSA0 2K Subscriber Special]].

* ''Fireplacing'' isn't so much a terrible {{WiiWare}} game as much as it is a not particularly interactive screensaver. It's a virtual fireplace. You can choose about three themes (graphics for the fireplace/room) and whether to manually kindle the thing, but it doesn't provide anything of interest at all. Heck, even the sound effect for the crackling logs is glitched and sometimes goes silent, and there's no music. [[http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2010/12/fireplacing Nintendo Life]] gave it one out of ten, while N Gamer gave it about 0.1 out of 10 due to the complete lack of entertainment value.

* ''Minute to Win It'' for Wii features vast variety of minigames ranging from easy, to confusing, to literally unplayable.Combine that with ugly graphics and you got one of the Wii games ever made.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqipo_CXB6E&t=55s Darklordjadow1 has a few things to say about this game]].

* ''Air Control'' (the Steam one, not the [=iOS=] one) is supposedly a flight simulator where the player switches between the pilot and the flight attendant. It's easily one of the most buggy, unstable, and unfinished pieces of software on this ''entire page''. Instructions overlap each other, buttons often have to be clicked multiple times to register, the mouse cursor and the first person camera are both run at the same time resulting in your character waving his head around as you try and close out of dialogue boxes... the list goes on. It's so lazily programmed that at one point, the game tells you how to work around a bug, ''in-game''. The game somehow forgets to clear global variables when you exit to the main menu, which means if you try and switch from "casual" to "realistic" mid-session, ''the game will crash and you have to force quit from the task manager!'' The developers have responded to negative reviews pointing out how often the game crashes with single-sentence rebuttals like "[[NeverMyFault your computer isn't strong enough]]". And to top it all off, almost all the art assets are stolen without credit, up to and including a safety instruction video from an actual, real life airline company! It's so bad, it was "rewarded" with Gamespot's ''[[http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/air-control-review/1900-6415776/ third-ever 1/10 score]]''. ''Air Control'' is considered so abysmal that many believe its existence to be a satirical joke, a deliberately unplayable train wreck created to demonstrate how easy it can be to deceive people foolish enough to not preview video games via video before making the decision to buy them. Thankfully, it has finally been removed from UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} suffered through it, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7UwKGWc7gI here]] and WebVideo/DarkLordJadow1 had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAio9PltTO0 more than a few things to say about it.]] [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] also talks about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7i2TgdFXsg here.]]

* In a bizarre reversal from the norm, the Uwe Boll movie ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Tunnel_Rats 1968 Tunnel Rats]]'' was given a tie-in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcoitqzkr8 video game.]] The film is one of Uwe's best-reviewed to date, but the game "makes up for it" by [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames being simply bad]]. Not only is it [[ObviousBeta infested with bugs]], the story is also ruined by the protagonist's erratic characterization. It tries to portray SanitySlippage by having him make angrier and more sadistic comments as the game goes on, but since the game is unfinished, the comments often play at inappropriate times, so, for example, he'll [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone show remorse]] after one kill and then mock his slain enemy after the next. [[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/tunnelrats/review.html Gamespot]], whose reviewers usually have at least one good thing to say about some of the worst games, couldn't even find a good point to fill in the summary.
* ''Aha! I Found It! Hidden Object Game'' is a HiddenObjectGame developed by A-TEAM for UsefulNotes/{{WiiWare}}. For one thing, the graphics are awful. They look like a three year old cut bits of construction paper out and pasted them together. Some have claimed to get headaches by looking at the graphics. None of the hidden objects which you are supposed to find look anything like they are supposed to look like; for example, the "sea turtle" looks like a yellow letter C. And the plot is an ExcusePlot UpToEleven: there are four aliens who want to find ways to help people, and it turns out that looking for hidden objects is how you help them. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/01/26/aha-i-found-it-hidden-object-game-review IGN reviews it here.]]

* ''Yaris'', an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoSHY5n74_4 advergame on XBLA]] which, despite being free, somehow managed to make the customers feel ripped off. The graphics look awful. They are barely even of UsefulNotes/PlayStation 1 standard. (However, it was made in 2007 for the Xbox 360, so you'd expect the graphicst at least be acceptable!) The gameplay isn't fun at all and the enemies consist of ''animals riding bikes.'' not only that, but it only has Yaris cars. It would actually be nice if they made up futuristic Yarises, but instead, there are only 3 Yarises. The audio sounds like nuclear water going all over the place. It feels jumbled up on a pile of shit. Its gameplay rips off other games -- you have to use a crane ''on top of your Yaris'' to collect coins, and you also have to Kill bad guys. The tracks are all generic and there arent even any unlockables. It managed to whip up a whopper of ''17'' from Metacritic. (According to Wikipedia, Yaris has the lowest metascore on the Xbox 360.) Thankfully, It was pulled from the service after a while due to bad reception.

* ''Guise of the Wolf'' makes all werewolf media feel ashamed for its existence. It does literally everything wrong. Like many awful, awful games before it, the art style disguises itself as cel-shaded to cover up its terrible textures; if the player stands in certain spots, they can see the lines misaligned with objects and people, and it's often possible to just walk right through them. The options menu only covers music and sound volume. The mechanics are half-assed as the "stealth system" consists of crouching, causing nobody to see you; not that you'll know to use it at first, because [[GuideDangIt there's no mention of it anywhere in the game, not even in the help menu]]. The central mechanic of turning into a werewolf is barely used for anything and doesn't have a significant impact on the gameplay. Moreover, the game is full of backtracking and instant death traps. WelcomeToCorneria is present ([[MemeticMutation Good evening, milord! Helps to have a map!]]) complete with a dialogue volume that isn't normalized. Its ending is told by a series of bad drawings, like they ran out of money before they could make a proper game animation. Finally, as expected of horrible games, [[ObviousBeta there are loads of glitches]]: the enter key can crash the game, [[SensoryAbuse sound effects can stack and distort to near-deafening levels]], and you can clip through almost everything. And it doesn't help that the developer CantTakeCriticism, as they attempted to place a copyright strike on [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]'s videos concerning the game. While they denied putting out the strike, there is plentiful evidence that they had something to do with it -- including issuing TB a "Final Warning" to take down his channel. The devs rescinded their claim after an InternetBackdraft, so the videos are back up and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ask3Dn1ocIQ you can watch the research stream here]] and a full review of the game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8YRafUfCY here]].

* ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric''. They said it couldn't be worse than ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', but '''they were wrong'''. This game was the first of a failed attempt at a spinoff of the main Sonic series in an attempt to bring the series back into relevancy. While the subsequent 3DS games are considered mediocre at best, ''Rise of Lyric'' was panned by fans and critics alike despite the team behind the game consisting of ex-Creator/NaughtyDog employees and the early demo being warmly received. This game suffers from controls that make exploration and platforming an exercise in frustration and futility, the combat is boring as hell, the puzzles are incredibly simplistic, the graphics are garish (and actually get ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' when you play Co-Op mode), and the game can barely run as it is thanks to the myriad bugs that threaten to break it entirely (including one that allowed Knuckles to jump infinitely, making the game beatable within ''one hour''). Worse still, the humor in the game is incredibly banal and nowhere near the quality set by the [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom cartoon series]] that came out around the same time. The game only served to damage the Sonic franchise's reputation further, just as people thought that the series was finally recovering with the well-regarded ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' and ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' as well as the SoOkayItsAverage ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' coming out in the years prior, and has taken Sonic 06's place as the butt of jokes among Sonic fans, as well as earning the [[SarcasmMode prestigious]] title of the worst game in the series.

* ''You Are Empty'', a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWPeXq7VkA Russian game]] released by 1C Games in 2006. The plot reads like a mishmash of ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'', ''VideoGame/TheRedStar'' and ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'', the game is bugged to death, and it uses flat textures. That's right, folks — in 2006, someone released a game with no lighting effects whatsoever. Gamespot's reviewer '''apologized''' for wasting the reader's time with the review. One of the game's greatest moments is when a monster jumps out at you from a higher level... and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou dies on impact with the floor]].

* ''Shannon Tweed's Attack of the Groupies HD'' (which is incidentally not at all HD) is a blatant ripoff of ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', only instead of fighting zombies, you defend Shannon Tweed's husband, [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], from crazed groupies using robots with water guns. It suffers from sluggish, skill-less, and just ''boring'' gameplay, a clunky and fiddly UI[[note]]for example, checking for robot upgrades requires one to pause the gameplay, click on the robot, click again on "upgrade", and finally ''manually'' resume the game, ''every single time.''[[/note]], and lazy game design that recycles the same environment for multiple levels in a row. The animated cutscenes and character models [[UncannyValley are hideously drawn]], the voice acting is flat and wooden, and all that passes for music is one annoyingly repetitive track that does not even loop properly. But the icing on this cake of terrible is a GameBreakingBug that ''blocks all enemies from spawning'' when you quit during the tutorial stage or skip the intro cutscene, making the game [[UnwinnableByMistake completely unplayable]] unless a new file is started. Watch [=TotalBiscuit=] savage it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulVX_a_ipQ here]], as well as [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling's]] equally negative playthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoYqOL8Drs here]].

* ''Shannon Tweed's Attack of the Groupies HD'' (which is incidentally not at all HD) is a blatant ripoff of ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', only instead of fighting zombies, you defend Shannon Tweed's husband, [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], from crazed groupies using robots with water guns. It suffers from sluggish, skill-less, and just ''boring'' gameplay, a clunky and fiddly UI[[note]]for example, checking for robot upgrades requires one to pause the gameplay, click on the robot, click again on "upgrade", and finally ''manually'' resume the game, ''every single time.''[[/note]], and lazy game design that recycles the same environment for multiple levels in a row. The animated cutscenes and character models [[UncannyValley are hideously drawn]], the voice acting is flat and wooden, and all that passes for music is one annoyingly repetitive track that does not even loop properly. But the icing on this cake of terrible is a GameBreakingBug that ''blocks all enemies from spawning'' when you quit during the tutorial stage or skip the intro cutscene, making the game [[UnwinnableByMistake unplayable]]. Watch [=TotalBiscuit=] savage it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulVX_a_ipQ here]], as well as [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling's]] equally negative playthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoYqOL8Drs here]].

* ''Shannon Tweed's Attack of the Groupies HD'' (which is incidentally not at all HD) is a blatant ripoff of ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', only instead of fighting zombies, you defend Shannon Tweed's husband, [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], from crazed groupies using robots with water guns. It suffers from sluggish, skill-less, and just ''boring'' gameplay, a clunky and fiddly UI[[note]]for example, checking for robot upgrades requires one to pause the gameplay, click on the robot, click again on "upgrade", and finally ''manually'' resume the game, ''every single time.''[[/note]], and lazy game design that recycles the same environment for multiple levels in a row. The animated cutscenes and character models [[UncannyValley are hideously drawn]], the voice acting is flat and wooden, and all that passes for music is one annoyingly repetitive track that does not even loop properly. But the icing on this cake of terrible is a GameBreakingBug that ''blocks all enemies from spawning'' when you quit during the tutorial stage or skip the intro cutscene, making the game [[UnwinnableByMistake unwinnable]]. Watch [=TotalBiscuit=] savage it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulVX_a_ipQ here]], as well as [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling's]] equally negative playthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoYqOL8Drs here]].

* In a bizarre reversal from the norm, the Uwe Boll movie ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Tunnel_Rats 1968 Tunnel Rats]]'' was given a tie-in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcoitqzkr8 video game.]] The film is one of Uwe's best to date, but the game "makes up for it" by [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames being simply bad]]. Not only is it [[ObviousBeta infested with bugs]], the story is also ruined by the protagonist's erratic characterization. It tries to portray SanitySlippage by having him make angrier and more sadistic comments as the game goes on, but since the game is unfinished, the comments often play at inappropriate times, so, for example, he'll [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone show remorse]] after one kill and then mock his slain enemy after the next. [[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/tunnelrats/review.html Gamespot]], whose reviewers usually have at least one good thing to say about some of the worst games, couldn't even find a good point to fill in the summary.

* ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric''. They said it couldn't be worse than ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', but '''they were wrong'''. This game was the first of a failed attempt at a spinoff of the main Sonic series in an attempt to bring the series back into relevancy. While the subsequent 3DS games are considered mediocre at best, ''Rise of Lyric'' was panned by fans and critics alike despite the team behind the game consisting of ex-NaughtyDog employees and the early demo being warmly received. This game suffers from controls that make exploration and platforming an exercise in frustration and futility, the combat is boring as hell, the puzzles are incredibly simplistic, the graphics are garish (and actually get ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' when you play Co-Op mode), and the game can barely run as it is thanks to the myriad bugs that threaten to break it entirely (including one that allowed Knuckles to jump infinitely, making the game beatable within ''one hour''). Worse still, the humor in the game is incredibly banal and nowhere near the quality set by the [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom cartoon series]] that came out around the same time. The game only served to damage the Sonic franchise's reputation further, just as people thought that the series was finally recovering with the well-regarded ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' and ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' as well as the SoOkayItsAverage ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' coming out in the years prior, and has taken Sonic 06's place as the butt of jokes among Sonic fans, as well as earning the [[SarcasmMode prestigious]] title of the worst game in the series.

* ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric''. They said it couldn't be worse than ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', but '''they were wrong'''. This game suffers from controls that make exploration and platforming an exercise in frustration and futility, the combat is boring as hell, the puzzles are incredibly simplistic, the graphics are garish, and the game can barely run as it is thanks to the myriad bugs that threaten to break it entirely (including one that allowed Knuckles to jump infinitely, making the game beatable within ''one hour''). Worse still, the humor in the game is incredibly banal and nowhere near the quality set by the [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom cartoon series]] that came out around the same time.

* ''Hell's House'', a downloadable game on the Microsoft Indie Game Channel. It's a FullMotionVideo SurvivalHorror game, where all you do is simply press the on-screen button prompts to win. The plot doesn't get brought up after the opening text crawl; instead, the entire game consists of the actress wandering room to room in the house, attempting to act. Since the death scenes can only occur when you lose, winning only shows a boring night routine with '''nothing''' interesting happening. The death scenes '''might''' fall under SoBadItsGood, but they're not worth going through the rest of the game. The incomparable ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' duo [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGkDoYQdzxc give it the proper treatment]] -- and even with their commentary, it's a chore to sit through!

* ''Shannon Tweed's Attack of the Groupies HD'' (which is incidentally not at all HD) is a blatant ripoff of ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', only instead of fighting zombies, you defend Shannon Tweed's husband, [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], from crazed groupies using robots with water guns. It suffers from sluggish, skill-less, and just ''boring'' gameplay, a clunky and fiddly UI[[note]]for example, checking for robot upgrades requires one to pause the gameplay, click on the robot, click again on "upgrade", and finally ''manually'' resume the game, ''every single time.''[[/note]], and lazy game design that recycles the same environment for multiple levels in a row. The animated cutscenes and character models [[UncannyValley are hideously drawn]], the voice acting is flat and wooden, and all that passes for music is one annoyingly repetitive track that does not even loop properly. But the icing on this cake of terrible is a GameBreakingBug that ''blocks all enemies from spawning'' when you quit during the tutorial stage or skip the intro cutscene, making the game UnwinnableByMistake. Watch [=TotalBiscuit=] savage it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulVX_a_ipQ here]], as well as [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling's]] equally negative playthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoYqOL8Drs here]].

* ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon World'' proved to fans that Atari had far from learned their lesson with the critically panned ''4 Mobile'' app (listed on Horrible.VideoGamesOther). Even after going through three different developers and being delayed a year and a half (not to mention several development restarts), its rescue from DevelopmentHell ''still'' managed to prove lackluster ''at best.'' To start off with, the game was plagued with numerous issues at launch, with one Steam reviewer claiming he spent the majority of his logged 8 hours ''just trying to get the game to start.'' The bugs didn't end there, with several issues such as difficulty simply '''plopping buildings along the walkway.''' Many of the included tools don't work properly, and generally it feels like a cheaper version of the previous game...one that was released eleven years before this one! And despite clearly being incomplete on arrival, they ''still charged a full $50 price.'' As if that weren't enough, it may have had some shot at redemption if it was released on its own with nothing to compare it to...except it ended up coming out alongside the much more lauded and praised ''VideoGame/PlanetCoaster'', ''and'' alongside another theme park sim that worked as a throwback to this series' roots that made it so popular to begin with, ''Parkitect''. Even after they lowered the price to $20 mere ''days'' after launch, the game seems to have all but been abandoned at this point as a result, with the developers realizing that it would take a miracle to make any sort of attempt to compete with those games after the embarrassment it left on them and Atari. Due to the lack of bug fixes and polish from launch that most other games have been rescued from appearing on this page over, it definitely qualifies as one of the worst examples of a AAA franchise being abused.

* ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon World'' proved to fans that Atari had far from learned their listen with the critically panned ''4 Mobile'' app (listed on Horrible.VideoGamesOther). Even after going through three different developers and being delayed a year and a half (not to mention several development restarts), its rescue from DevelopmentHell ''still'' managed to prove lackluster ''at best.'' To start off with, the game was plagued with numerous issues at launch, with one Steam reviewer claiming he spent the majority of his logged 8 hours ''just trying to get the game to start.'' The bugs didn't end there, with several issues such as difficulty simply '''plopping buildings along the walkway.''' Many of the included tools don't work properly, and generally it feels like a cheaper version of the previous game...one that was released eleven years before this one! And despite clearly being incomplete on arrival, they ''still charged a full $50 price.'' As if that weren't enough, it may have had some shot at redemption if it was released on its own with nothing to compare it to...except it ended up coming out alongside the much more lauded and praised ''VideoGame/PlanetCoaster'', ''and'' alongside another theme park sim that worked as a throwback to this series' roots that made it so popular to begin with, ''Parkitect''. Even after they lowered the price to $20 mere ''days'' after launch, the game seems to have all but been abandoned at this point as a result, with the developers realizing that it would take a miracle to make any sort of attempt to compete with those games after the embarrassment it left on them and Atari. Due to the lack of bug fixes and polish from launch that most other games have been rescued from appearing on this page over, it definitely qualifies as one of the worst examples of a AAA franchise being abused.

* The aforementioned ''Power Gig'' has nothing on ''VideoGame/RockRevolution''. Creator/{{Konami}} already had [[VideoGame/{{Gitadora}} long-running franchises of drum and guitar video games in Japan]], ''[=DrumMania=]'' and ''Guitar Freaks''. These games, in turn, inspired the exponentially bigger ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' franchises. Faced with these new rivals, Konami had Zoe Mode [[LostInImitation directly imitate the style of its American competitors]], rather than try to maintain the mechanics of the original game. The result came across as a bad CoverVersion, with bad-looking graphics and menus, undercharting and a severe lack of polish. Speaking of cover versions, all but two of the game's 41 songs were covers (by contrast, its main competitors -- ''Guitar Hero World Tour'' and ''Rock Band 2' -- both touted that they would feature 100% master recordings and no covers). Critics were also divided over its top-down note perspective (carried over from ''Gitadora'', except more like ''Guitar Hero'' in appearance than a tablature style). Konami also made a questionable decision to exclude vocals from the game entirely so it wouldn't cannibalize ''VideoGame/KaraokeRevolution'' (originally developed in the first place by ''Rock Band'' studio Harmonix), nor produce a guitar controller specifically for it (In other words, bring your own 5-button guitar) -- although they did create a rather interesting [[http://kotaku.com/5051409/another-look-at-konamis-rock-revolution-drums/ drum kit]]. In the end, it got scathing reviews, most arguing that the game probably would have been revolutionary had ''Guitar Hero'' or ''Rock Band'' not been released yet.

* The aforementioned ''Power Gig'' has nothing on ''VideoGame/RockRevolution''. Creator/{{Konami}} already had [[VideoGame/{{Gitadora}} long-running franchises of drum and guitar video games in Japan]], ''[=DrumMania=]'' and ''Guitar Freaks''. These games, in turn, inspired the exponentially bigger ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' franchises. Faced with these new rivals, Konami had Zoe Mode [[LostInImitation directly imitate the style of its American competitors]], rather than try to maintain the mechanics of the original game. The result came across as a bad CoverVersion, with bad-looking graphics and menus, undercharting and a severe lack of polish. Speaking of cover versions, all but two of the game's 41 songs were covers (ironic, given that its main competition -- ''Guitar Hero World Tour'' and ''Rock Band 2'', both promised to only use master recordings). Critics were also divided over its top-down note perspective (carried over from ''Gitadora'', except more like ''Guitar Hero'' in appearance than a tablature style). Konami also made a questionable decision to exclude vocals from the game entirely so it wouldn't cannibalize ''VideoGame/KaraokeRevolution'' (originally developed in the first place by ''Rock Band'' studio Harmonix), nor produce a guitar controller specifically for it (In other words, bring your own 5-button guitar) -- although they did create a rather interesting [[http://kotaku.com/5051409/another-look-at-konamis-rock-revolution-drums/ drum kit]]. In the end, it got scathing reviews, most arguing that the game probably would have been revolutionary had ''Guitar Hero'' or ''Rock Band'' not been released yet.

* The aforementioned ''Power Gig'' has nothing on ''VideoGame/RockRevolution''. Creator/{{Konami}} already had [[VideoGame/{{Gitadora}} long-running franchises of drum and guitar video games in Japan]], ''VideoGame/DrumMania'' and ''Guitar Freaks'' -- games that helped inspire the ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' franchises that reached mainstream acceptance outside of Japan (and the handful of arcades that [[NoExportForYou imported these particular games]]). Rather than making what could have been an AdaptationExpansion that maintained the core mechanics of its own games, Konami decided to FollowTheLeader and have its developer, Zoe Mode, directly imitate the style of its competitors. The result came across as a bad CoverVersion, with bad-looking graphics and menus, undercharting and a severe lack of polish. Speaking of cover versions, all but two of the game's 41 songs were covers (ironic, given that its main competition -- ''Guitar Hero World Tour'' and ''Rock Band 2'', both promised to only use master recordings). Critics were also divided over its top-down note perspective (carried over from ''Gitadora'', except more like ''Guitar Hero'' in appearance than a tablature style). Konami also made a questionable decision to exclude vocals from the game entirely so it wouldn't cannibalize ''VideoGame/KaraokeRevolution'' (originally developed in the first place by ''Rock Band'' studio Harmonix), nor produce a guitar controller specifically for it (In other words, bring your own 5-button guitar) -- although they did create a rather interesting [[http://kotaku.com/5051409/another-look-at-konamis-rock-revolution-drums/ drum kit]]. In the end, it got scathing reviews, most arguing that the game probably would have been revolutionary had ''Guitar Hero'' or ''Rock Band'' not been released yet.

* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII: Wander of the Dragons'' is a laughably inept attempt at remaking the arcade version of ''Double Dragon II'' for XboxLiveArcade. The four stages from the arcade are stretched out over the course of 15 boring and ugly levels, with the action occasionally broken up by set pieces that do nothing to make the game exciting. Controls are needlessly complicated, the graphics are quality- and personality-free, the background music plays on an annoying short loop, the voiced narration is terrible and often doesn't even match up with the subtitles, and the few special moves added to add variety to combat are worthless (as actually ''using'' them at any point in the game automatically gives you the bad ending). ''Wander'' does a disservice to its inspiration in every way imaginable, and is a sharp contrast to the quality of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'' (Creator/WayForwardTechnologies' '80s-flavored remake of the original game), or even the NES home version of ''Double Dragon II'', released more than two decades ago.

* ''Fighters Uncaged'' was released as a showcase title for the {{Xbox 360}}'s new-at-the-time Kinect motion controller. It was a mess from start to finish, with an overly long tutorial that treated the player like an idiot (forcing the player to attack several times with each limb individually before proceeding to the next lesson), a laughable story accompanied by dreadful writing and voice acting, the inability to register basic moves correctly most of the time, and sluggish fighting on the rare occasions that the Kinect ''did'' register the player's moves.

* ''Guitar Superstar'', a horrid [[{{Plagiarism}} ripoff]] of [[VideoGame/GuitarHero a certain popular rhythm game franchise]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4DhMtGW54 You have to see it to believe it.]] The songs (the most important part of the game) are [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong rip-offs]] of well-known rock songs, which are done in horrible UsefulNotes/{{MIDI}} style. And it's not the only one of its kind: WebVideo/{{Ashens}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHOaMXYXU4 reviewed]] another extremely similar game once.
* ''Hour of Victory'' was a bizarre and terrible mishmash of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' games, starting out as another historical WorldWarII shooting game, but then taking a jump off the deep end and turning into a game about the Nazis developing nuclear weaponry. As if that weren't bad enough, the [[RealIsBrown brownish]] graphics were barely even of UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 standard (despite the game proudly boasting on the box that it was the first World War II shooter to use the [[GameEngine Unreal Engine 3]]), the gameplay mechanics were screwed up beyond belief, the heavily promoted destructible scenery and vehicular combat barely even featured, and the multiplayer mode somehow managed to have fewer options than games released ten years previously. There were even rumors of the player character's PistolWhipping attack glitching out and killing ''everything'' in one hit, ''including tanks!'' It was the worst-reviewed {{Xbox 360}} game to have been released until that point, and a GenreKiller for the World War II shooter, with only ''Call of Duty: World at War'' having met with any real success since ''Hour of Victory's'' release. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMieqp6ya8o The Blame Truth's attempt]] at playing the game showcases most of these flaws plus more.

* The latter half of the ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' series was already notorious for basing ''Overdose'' on a [[RunningTheAsylum fan-made game mod]]. ''Painkiller: Resurrection'' does the same thing, but not as well. Everything but a single monster (which looks like an orc made of raw hamburger and has [[YourSizeMayVary three different sizes]]) and a single weapon (a re-skinned "Battle Out Of Hell" weapon) are taken pixel-for-pixel from earlier installments. The levels are the largest the franchise has ever seen, but are usually either too cramped to comfortably accomodate the sort of monsters found in them or so huge that the player must backtrack constantly to find a new monster spawn point. The clumsy storyline is shoehorned into the game with comic-style cutscenes ''à la'' ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' and mood-killing voice acting ''à la'' ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWFImtwLnQ case in point]]). It's [[ObviousBeta loaded with bugs]] that no patch effort has successfully deterred — it crashes to desktop frequently, the weather effects slow the dated engine to a crawl, [[ArtificialStupidity enemy AI tends to get hung up on the scenery]], online co-op (a major selling point) was inaccessible at launch, the game crashed if a certain weapon was fired in multiplayer, and glitching out the final checkpoint was common and made hour-long levels UnwinnableByMistake. If that won't make you quit playing ''Painkiller'', put on "[[Music/JudasPriest Painkiller]]" (or even ''[[Music/LittleBigTown Pain Killer]]''), and down some painkillers, then nothing will.

* ''VideoGame/PowerGigRiseOfTheSixString'' is considered not only one of the worst ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' clones ever made, but also one of the worst rhythm games in recent memory. Its mission statement was ambitious: get players to "rock for real" by replacing the standard guitar controllers, with their coloured buttons and strum bars, with a proper six-string guitar that works both in and out of the game, going so far as to make {{Take That}}s for this reason. Now, one of their competitors did this -- ''VideoGame/RockBand 3'' can be played with a real six-string -- but the real guitar for ''Power Gig'' barely works in the game and sounds like you'd expect a $150 guitar to sound in RealLife. Worse, this game barely encourages players to learn to play real guitar. Aside from the "power chords," which can be turned off, the gameplay is ''identical'' to the game's chief competitors, only there are ''only'' six-string guitar charts -- no bass guitars. The notes you play in the game aren't even close to how you would play the song in real life, eliminating the reason to have a real six-string as a controller.\\

* ''Family Party: 30 Great Games: Obstacle Arcade'' for the UsefulNotes/WiiU is a shining example of [[NeverTrustATitle deception in advertising]]. The graphics are bland, barely any more detailed than a Nintendo 64 game (on an ''eighth-gen console''), and the sound is mediocre; the music at least would be tolerable if it weren't constantly drowned out by the obnoxious voice acting. Most of all, though, various critics have noted that all of the so-called 'great' minigames are poorly designed (including a target-shooting game where the players are required to aim with the Wii Remote's Nunchuk attachment instead of pointing and shooting with the remote) and nearly unplayable. [[http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/family-fun-30-great-games-obstacle-arcade Game Revolution gave the game zero stars out of 5]], the only game to receive such a score since the website switched from a letter-grade review system. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130531012444/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk:80/46932/reviews/family-party-obstacle-arcade-30-great-games-review-review/ Joe Skrebels of the UK Official Nintendo Magazine]] gave it 11%, styling his review as an ApocalypticLog with a summary claiming it caused him to suffer [[SanitySlippage a psychotic breakdown]]. Furthermore, PeanutButterGamer considered it the [[https://youtu.be/i8VTZEsPOD0?t=865 second-worst party video game he's ever played]], with the only reason why it's not #1 was due to the fact that the other game was more of a disappointment to him.

* ''Iron Soul'', a third-person shooter on Steam. Issues abound, including a text crawl intro narrated by what sounds like a text-to-speech program that can't pronounce words like "evil" and "hypothetical", a crosshair that has to be manually turned on instead of being on by default, a severe dearth of enemy types, an obnoxious MissionControl character (who's even ''called'' the Annoying Voice in the game's trading cards) that sounds like a mix between [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Jar Jar Binks]], a laughable plot involving the world governments discovering possible life on other planets and then apparently ''immediately'' constructing an army of {{Killer Robot}}s to fend off a "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin hypothatical]]" AlienInvasion, wonky jumping mechanics, and complaints of at least one copy of the game in which the first boss was rendered [[UnwinnableByMistake unbeatable]] by having no health meter. Watch WebVideo/{{Brutalmoose}} tear the game apart (at least up until the aforementioned boss) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9jahNX9EY here.]]
* ''The Letter'' is a low-budget exploration game in the vein of ''VideoGame/DearEsther'', ''VideoGame/GoneHome'' or ''VideoGame/{{Proteus}}'', but has barely a fraction of the flair required to match any of them, and isn't worth the $2 it costs to download the thing from the VideoGame/{{Wii U}} [=eShop=]. Your player character gets a letter supposedly left by his parents, and then fumbles around drab, empty environments trying to figure out what happened to them. It tries to pass itself off as a horror game, but there are no scares to be found whatsoever unless you count playing this crap. Worst of all, the game can be finished in less than 15 minutes, and ends with [[spoiler:a trite AllJustADream twist]].

* ''VideoGame/PowerGigRiseOfTheSixString'' is considered not only one of the worst ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' clones ever made, but also one of the worst rhythm games in recent memory. Its mission statement was ambitious: get players to "rock for real" by replacing the standard guitar controllers, with their coloured buttons and strum bars, with a proper six-string guitar that works both in and out of the game, going so far as to make {{Take That}}s for this reason. Now, one of their competitors did this -- ''VideoGame/RockBand 3'' can be played with a real six-string -- but the real guitar for ''Power Gig'' barely works in the game and sounds like you'd expect a $150 guitar to sound in RealLife. Worse, this game barely encourages players to learn to play real guitar. Aside from the "power chords," which can be turned off, the gameplay is ''identical'' to the game's chief competitors, only there are ''only'' six-string guitar charts -- no bass guitars. The notes you play in the game aren't even close to how you would play the song in real life, eliminating the reason to have a real six-string as a controller. The track list does have some decent songs in it (including artists who have never appeared in any previous music game, such as Music/EricClapton and The Dave Matthews Band), but very few songs are available from the get-go. Players will have to slog through the game's story mode, which has an idiotic plotline centered around collecting "mojo" from different bands to defeat the evil Headliner who has [[CulturePolice outlawed playing music in public]]. The accompanying drum kit seems designed to turn people off music games--it's simply four pads sitting on the floor, and you have to air drum ''over'' them. Yes, it is quieter, but it misses the point of playing drums. You also have to be absurdly precise to know which pad you're "hitting"; you get no touch feedback from air drumming, and keeping an eye on the screen and another on the ground won't let you watch your hands to be sure where they are.

* ''Rogue Warrior'' is a FPS/stealth action hybrid title based on the exploits and [[Literature/RogueWarrior autobiography]] of real-life Navy SEAL Dick Marcinko (voiced by Mickey Rourke), with a multiplayer mode that was supposed to revolutionize online play with its randomized maps. Bethesda was hoping that this would be their big game for the 2009 holiday season, but instead, it was roundly trashed for its completely broken enemy AI, hit detection, and [[UselessUsefulStealth stealth mechanics]], a single-player campaign runtime of under two hours, and a script [[ClusterFBomb so foul-mouthed]] that it was more annoying than hardcore. The only redeeming factor was the SoBadItsGood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVoyGUcXepc rapping]] that Mickey Rourke does over the credits. [[http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-rogue-warrior/17-1719/ Here's]] Website/GiantBomb having their fun with it. If you want to see it in all of its glory, watch ChipCheezum [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdILE4EIns&index=1&list=PLrekaHLD2rhYehngs_IE0OwRTtyPq6Vpl play through the game.]]